1947_Giro_d'Italia
1947 Giro d'Italia
Cycling race
The 1947 Giro d'Italia was the 30th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 24 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 190 km (118 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 15 June after a 278 km (173 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,843 km (2,388 mi).
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| Dates | 24 May - 15 June 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,843 km (2,388 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 115h 55' 07" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Giro was won by Fausto Coppi of the Bianchi team, with fellow Italians Gino Bartali and Giulio Bresci coming in second and third respectively.
A total of twelve teams entered the 1947 Giro d'Italia.[1] Each team sent a squad of seven riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 84 cyclists.[1] Out of the 84 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 50 riders made it to the finish in Milan.[1][2]
The teams entering the race were:[1]
- Arbos–Talbot
- Benotto
- Bianchi
- Cozzi-Silger
- Legnano
- Lygie
- Olmo
- Monterosa
- Viscontea
- Wally
- Welter
- Wilier Triestina
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 May | Milan to Turin | 190 km (118 mi) |  |
Plain stage |  Renzo Zanazzi (ITA) | |
| 2 | 25 May | Turin to Genoa | 206 km (128 mi) | |
Plain stage | Gino Bartali (ITA) | |
| 3 | 26 May | Genoa to Reggio Emilia | 220 km (137 mi) |  |
Stage with mountain(s) | Luciano Maggini (ITA) | |
| 4 | 27 May | Reggio Emilia to Prato | 190 km (118 mi) | |
Stage with mountain(s) | Fausto Coppi (ITA) | |
| 28 May | Rest day | ||||||
| 5a | 29 May | Prato to Bagni di Casciana Terme | 84 km (52 mi) | |
Plain stage | Luciano Maggini (ITA) | |
| 5b | Bagni di Casciana Terme to Florence | 141 km (88 mi) | |
Plain stage | Renzo Zanazzi (ITA) | ||
| 6 | 30 May | Florence to Perugia | 161 km (100 mi) | |
Plain stage | Giordano Cottur (ITA) | |
| 7 | 31 May | Perugia to Rome | 240 km (149 mi) | |
Stage with mountain(s) | Oreste Conte (ITA) | |
| 8 | 1 June | Rome to Naples | 231 km (144 mi) | |
Plain stage | Fausto Coppi (ITA) | |
| 2 June | Rest day | ||||||
| 9 | 3 June | Naples to Bari | 288 km (179 mi) | |
Stage with mountain(s) | Elio Bertocchi (ITA) | |
| 10 | 4 June | Bari to Foggia | 129 km (80 mi) | |
Plain stage | Mario Ricci (ITA) | |
| 11 | 5 June | Foggia to Pescara | 223 km (139 mi) | |
Plain stage | Oreste Conte (ITA) | |
| 6 June | Rest day | ||||||
| 12 | 7 June | Pescara to Cesenatico | 267 km (166 mi) | |
Plain stage | Giovanni Corrieri (ITA) | |
| 13 | 8 June | Cesenatico to Padua | 175 km (109 mi) | |
Plain stage | Antonio Bevilacqua (ITA) | |
| 14 | 9 June | Padua to Vittorio Veneto | 132 km (82 mi) | |
Plain stage | Adolfo Leoni (ITA) | |
| 15 | 10 June | Vittorio Veneto to Pieve di Cadore | 200 km (124 mi) | |
Stage with mountain(s) | Gino Bartali (ITA) | |
| 11 June | Rest day | ||||||
| 16 | 12 June | Pieve di Cadore to Trento | 194 km (121 mi) | |
Stage with mountain(s) | Fausto Coppi (ITA) | |
| 17 | 13 June | Trento to Brescia Sant'Eufemia | 114 km (71 mi) | |
Plain stage | Adolfo Leoni (ITA) | |
| 18 | 14 June | Brescia Sant'Eufemia to Lugano (Switzerland) | 180 km (112 mi) | |
Plain stage | Giulio Bresci (ITA) | |
| 19 | 15 June | Lugano (Switzerland) to Milan | 278 km (173 mi) | |
Stage with mountain(s) | Adolfo Leoni (ITA) | |
| Total | 3,843 km (2,388 mi) | ||||||
In the fifteenth stage, Bartali dismounted his bike to punch a spectator who shouted an anti-Catholic slur at him.[3] He then continued to win the stage.[3]
The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[4]
In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.[4]
There was a black jersey (maglia nera) awarded to the rider placed last in the general classification. The classification was calculated in the same manner as the general classification.
The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner.[2][5] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.[2][5]
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
| Stage | Winner | General classification |
Mountains classification | Last in General classification |
Team classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renzo Zanazzi | Renzo Zanazzi | not awarded | Ernesto Ciardossino | ? |
| 2 | Gino Bartali | Armando Peverelli | |||
| 3 | Luciano Maggini | Giovanni Corrieri | ? | ||
| 4 | Fausto Coppi | Gino Bartali | Gino Bartali | Antonio Ausenda | Benotto |
| 5a | Luciano Maggini | ? | |||
| 5b | Renzo Zanazzi | ||||
| 6 | Giordano Cottur | Antonio Ausenda | |||
| 7 | Oreste Conte | ||||
| 8 | Fausto Coppi | ||||
| 9 | Elio Bertocchi | Luigi Malabrocca | Welter | ||
| 10 | Mario Ricci | ||||
| 11 | Oreste Conte | ||||
| 12 | Giovanni Corrieri | ||||
| 13 | Antonio Bevilacqua | Riccardo Sarti | |||
| 14 | Adolfo Leoni | Luigi Malabrocca | |||
| 15 | Gino Bartali | Riccardo Sarti | Welter | ||
| 16 | Fausto Coppi | Fausto Coppi | ? | ||
| 17 | Adolfo Leoni | ||||
| 18 | Giulio Bresci | ||||
| 19 | Adolfo Leoni | Luigi Malabrocca | |||
| Final | Fausto Coppi | Gino Bartali | Luigi Malabrocca | Welter | |
General classification
| Rank | Name | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fausto Coppi (ITA)  |
Bianchi | 115h 55' 07" |
| 2 | Gino Bartali (ITA) |
Legnano | + 1' 43" |
| 3 | Giulio Bresci (ITA) |
Welter | + 5' 54" |
| 4 | Ezio Cecchi (ITA) |
Welter | + 15' 01" |
| 5 |  Sylvère Maes (BEL) |
Olmo | + 15' 06" |
| 6 | Alfredo Martini (ITA) |
Welter | + 19' 00" |
| 7 | Mario Vicini (ITA) |
Bianchi | + 30' 46" |
| 8 | Salvatore Crippa (ITA) |
Lygie | + 31' 05" |
| 9 | Fiorenzo Magni (ITA) |
Viscontea | + 34' 07" |
| 10 | Angelo Menon (ITA) |
Lygie | + 35' 49" |
Mountains classification
| Name | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gino Bartali (ITA) |
Legnano | 24 |
| 2 | Fausto Coppi (ITA) |
Bianchi | 21 |
| 3 | Giulio Bresci (ITA) |
Welter | 13 |
| 4 | Giovanni Corrieri (ITA) |
Viscontea | 7 |
| Sylvère Maes (BEL) |
Olmo | ||
| 6 | Oreste Conte (ITA) |
Benotto | 5 |
| Alfredo Martini (ITA) |
Welter | ||
| Ezio Cecchi (ITA) |
Welter | ||
| Luigi Casola (ITA) |
Bianchi | ||
| 10 | Sergio Pagliazzi (ITA) |
Cozzi-Silger | 4 |
| Adolfo Leoni (ITA) |
Bianchi | ||
| Antonio Bevilacqua (ITA) |
Lygie |
Team classification
| Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welter | 348h 25' 36" |
| 2 | Bianchi | + 1h 10' 35" |
| 3 | Legnano | + 1h 15' 14" |
| 4 | Viscontea | + 1h 28' 23" |
| 5 | Lygie | + 2h 15' 17" |
| 6 | Wally | + 3h 38' 13" |
| 7 | Benotto | + 3h 44' 28" |
| 8 | Arbos-Talbot | + 4h 00' 41" |
| 9 | Wilier-Triestina | + 5h 14' 43" |
Minor awards
Coppi won the blue bracelet for winning the stage with the greatest time between the second placed rider.[6] He managed to achieve a gap of 4' 24" during the stage from Pieve di Cadore to Trento, where he won by a margin of 4' 24".[6] Coppi and Adolfo Leoni split the "premato veloce" classification which was given to the rider with the most stage wins.[6] Leoni and Coppi both won three stages, while four riders won two stages.[6]
Citations
- "Il quadro dei partecipanti" [The framework of the participants]. Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 24 May 1947. p. 1. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- Bill and Carol McGann. "1947 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- McConnon & McConnon 2012, p. 174.
- Laura Weislo (13 May 2008). "Giro d'Italia classifications demystified". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- "L'ultima tappa in una immensa cornice di folla e la vittoria di Leoni" [The final step in a huge frame of the crowd and the victory of Leoni]. Il Littoriale (in Italian). Milan, Italy. 10 June 1940. p. 2. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- "Gino Bartali vince il G.P. della Montagna" [Gino Bartali wins the Mountains Classification]. Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 16 June 1947. p. 2. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- "Classifica a squadre" [Team classification]. Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 16 June 1947. p. 2. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
Bibliography
- McConnon, Aili; McConnon, Andres (2012). Road to Valour: Gino Bartali – Tour De France Legend and World War Two Hero. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-85999-4.
- Pratolini, Vasco (1992). Cronache dal Giro d'Italia (maggio-giugno 1947) [Reports from the Tour of Italy (May–June 1947)] (in Italian). Milan, Italy: Claudio Lombardi editore. ISBN 978-8-8779-9016-7.